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THE BOOK OF THE PROPHET<br/>
<span class=large>ISAIAH</span>
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CHAPTER 21
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Babylon is fallen, is fallen!—Other nations also are destroyed.
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The</span> <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/21/1a" mark="a" type="D" title="IE a message or prophecy of doom to Babylon.">burden</a> of the desert of the sea.  As whirlwinds in <sup>b</sup><a href="isa/21/1b" mark="b" type="D" title="OR the Negev desert.">the</a> south pass through; <i>so</i> it cometh from the desert, from a terrible land.
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A grievous vision is declared unto me; the <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/21/2a" mark="a" type="A" title="Isa. 33: 1.">treacherous</a> dealer dealeth treacherously, and the spoiler spoileth.  Go up, O <sup>b</sup><a href="isa/21/2b" mark="b" type="D" title="This prophecy was fulfilled in 538 B.C., about 200 years after Isaiah lived.">Elam</a>: besiege, O Media; all the sighing thereof have I made to cease.
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Therefore are my loins filled with pain: pangs have taken hold upon me, as the pangs of a woman that travaileth: I was bowed down at the hearing <i>of it;</i> I was <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/21/3a" mark="a" type="D" title="IE Isaiah was astonished at the cataclysmic scene he saw in vision, even though an enemy was the nation destroyed.">dismayed</a> at the seeing <i>of it.</i>
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My heart panted, fearfulness affrighted me: the night of my pleasure hath he turned into fear unto me.
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Prepare the table, watch in the watchtower, eat, drink: arise, ye princes, <i>and</i> anoint the shield.
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For thus hath the Lord said unto me, Go, set a watchman, let him <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/21/6a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Preaching.">declare</a> what he seeth.
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And he saw a chariot <i>with</i> a couple of horsemen, a chariot of asses, <i>and</i> a chariot of camels; and he hearkened diligently with much heed:
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And he cried, A lion: My lord, I stand continually upon the watchtower in the daytime, and I am set in my ward whole nights:
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And, behold, here cometh a chariot of men, <i>with</i> a couple of horsemen.  And he answered and said, <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/21/9a" mark="a" type="A" title="Rev. 14: 8 (8-11); D&C 1: 16.">Babylon</a> is fallen, is fallen; and all the graven images of her gods he hath broken unto the ground.
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<sup>a</sup><a href="isa/21/10a" mark="a" type="P" title="HEB O my threshed one and son of my threshing floor. (The prophet thus addressed the Israelites who will survive Babylon’s downfall.).">O</a> my threshing, and the corn of my floor: that which I have heard of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> of hosts, the God of Israel, have I declared unto you.
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&#182; The <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/21/11a" mark="a" type="D" title="IE a message of doom to the Edomites.">burden</a> of Dumah.  He calleth to me out of <sup>b</sup><a href="isa/21/11b" mark="b" type="A" title="Gen. 36: 8 (8-9); Ezek. 35: 2.">Seir</a>, Watchman, <sup>c</sup><a href="isa/21/11c" mark="c" type="D" title="IE How much is spent? How long will darkness (i.e. oppression) last?.">what</a> of the night?  Watchman, what of the night?
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The watchman said, <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/21/12a" mark="a" type="D" title="IE The end of Babylonian captivity approaches, but another oppressor follows; inquire again later.">The</a> morning cometh, and also the night: if ye will enquire, enquire ye: return, come.
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&#182; The <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/21/13a" mark="a" type="D" title="Arabian caravans and camps would also suffer disruption and oppression by the Babylonian conquest (v. 13-17).">burden</a> upon Arabia.  In the forest in Arabia shall ye lodge, O ye travelling companies of Dedanim.
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The inhabitants of the land of Tema brought water to him that was thirsty, they prevented with their bread him that fled.
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For they fled from the swords, from the drawn sword, and from the bent bow, and from the grievousness of war.
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For thus hath the Lord said unto me, Within a year, according to the years of an hireling, and all the glory of <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/21/16a" mark="a" type="A" title="Isa. 60: 7.">Kedar</a> shall fail:
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And the residue of the number of archers, the mighty men of the children of Kedar, shall be diminished: for the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> God of Israel hath spoken <i>it.</i>
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